On Tue, Mar 10, 2026 at 4:49 PM Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org wrote:
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.18.17 release. There are 314 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response to this one. If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please let me know.
Responses should be made by Thu Mar 12 11:19:16 AM UTC 2026. Anything received after that time might be too late.
The whole patch series can be found in one patch at: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git/r... or in the git tree and branch at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-6.18.y and the diffstat can be found below.
Thanks, Sasha
built and boot-tested the linux-stable-rc 6.18.17 kernel using QEMU.
The kernel built and booted successfully in a virtual environment on the tested architectures. No issues were observed during boot, and no regressions were found in the dmesg output.
Build details: Architectures : arm64, x86_64 Kernel version: 6.18.17-rc1 Configuration : defconfig Source : https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git Commit : c86e53b5f7797099e5c89a0c3f43de859d8ec1ec